First Annual ‘Environment and Development’ Seminar with Dr. Jane Goodall

Join Dr. Jane Goodall and a distinguished panel as we launch the Centre for Environment and Jane Goodall Institute Annual Seminar on 'Environment and Development'.  This unique seminar will explore the myriad ways in which environmental issues and human development issues intersect, through presentations by two University of Toronto researchers, and provide insight into the Jane Goodall Institute’s “community-centred conservation” approach to the challenge of protecting habitat for wildlife in some of the world’s poorest countries.


Location: Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Great Hall, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Program (PDF)

Researchers:

Dr. Ernest Opoku-Boateng, University of Toronto
Topic: Default environmental decision-making and the environment-development dilemma in Africa.
Using the response of the government of Ghana to recent environmental crises, including the black-outs of 2005/2006 as a point of departure, this presentation will examine the development-environment dilemma facing African countries and the extent to which default environmental decision-making is influencing policy choices.

Saul Cohen, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Topic: Sites and Products of Conservation: Examining the “Community” in a Community-Based Conservation Project in Northern Botswana
This presentation will examine the roots and consequences of the disconnection between conservation practitioners’ and villagers’ definitions of “community” in a community-based conservation-development project in northern Botswana.

Panelists:

Ingrid Stefanovic (Moderator) 
Professor and Director, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace

Kerry Bowman
Assistant Professor, Joint Centre for Bioethics, U of T and President and founder of the Canadian Ape Alliance

Stephen Scharper
Associate Professor, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto

Q and A with discussion from the audience and panel to follow.

Registration:

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